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> There’s plenty of weird cruft in Firefox’s ~30 year old codebase that causes bugs and unspecified behavior. Just wondering where you're getting "30 years" fr
by TheGoddessInari 5y ago
> There’s plenty of weird cruft in Firefox’s ~30 year old codebase that causes bugs and unspecified behavior.
Just wondering where you're getting "30 years" from?
That asked, a Chrome-shaped monoculture doesn't help anybody. We need more competing implementations, not less. Anyone feel like collaborating on such?
- hiptobecubic 5y agoAre you casually asking if anyone wants to start writing a rendering engine?
- jitl 5y agoNetscape was founded in 1994, Firefox is derived from Gecko (1997) layout code code open-sourced from Netscape in 1998. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) for some background. I was thinking 1994 when I wrote the comment, but it’s closer to ~25 years if you reckon from Gecko’s birth year of 1997.